Laura Poitras Movies
- 2016
The Journey
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Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....
- 2010
The Oath
The Oath7.42010HD
Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...
- 2017
Trump's Lobby
Trump's Lobby6.72017HD
Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals...
- 2019
Triple-Chaser
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When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...
- 2014
Citizenfour
Citizenfour7.7362014HD
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...
- 2013
PRISM: Whistleblower
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The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...
- 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed7.2452022HD
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...
- 2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone7.72016HD
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long...
- 2017
Strong Island
Strong Island6.3672017HD
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary...
- 2017
Duterte's Hell
Duterte's Hell82017HD
Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have...
- 2019
The Trial
The Trial02019HD
Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 9/11...
- 2017
Conditioned Response
Conditioned Response6.72017HD
For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on...
- 2021
Terror Contagion
Terror Contagion72021HD
A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...
- 2018
Lasting Marks
Lasting Marks6.32018HD
The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the...
- 2018
In the Absence
In the Absence7.82018HD
When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...
- 2019
Cablestreet
Cablestreet02019HD
A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...
- 2019
Days of Black and Yellow
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New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by ride-share apps. As these long standing...
- 1989
Renga
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“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....
- 2013
Death of a Prisoner
Death of a Prisoner42013HD
The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.
- 2006
My Country, My Country
My Country, My Country6.92006HD
The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.